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Surgical Eye Pressure Relief Procedure

Rhode Island rates for HCPCS 65820

This eye surgery lowers pressure inside the eye by creating or improving a drainage pathway for the fluid inside it. It is generally used to treat glaucoma and is typically a planned, scheduled procedure rather than emergency treatment for a sudden pressure spike.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Surgical Eye Pressure Relief Procedure cost?

$3,669

Typical total for the visit. In Rhode Island, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,669 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $977 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,692 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$977$794 to $1,259
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,692$1,175 to $3,981

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,692 · 10th to 90th $794 to $5,888Professionalmedian $977 · 10th to 90th $741 to $1,514
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,692professional $977

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$3,981.07
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$812.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$616.60
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$123.03
Typical High
$123.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$81.28
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,258.93
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$776.25
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$223.87
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$67.61
Median
$97.72
Typical High
$109.65
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$4,073.80
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$1,513.56
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$7,413.10
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,174.90
3 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$407.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$162.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$575.44

Where Rhode Island sits

The same service costs 5.4 times more in Alaska than in South Carolina. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Physician feeFacility fee

Rhode Island· 22nd of 51

$3,669

$977 physician + $2,692 facility

AK $8,807SC $1,633

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.